The small equids of Binagady (Azerbaidjan) and Qazvin (Iran): E-hemionus binagadensis nov. subsp. and E-hydruntinus

Most of the remains of the small pleistocene equid of Binagady usually cons idered as an E. hydruntinus may be referred to a new subspecies, E. hemionu s binagadensis. A few teeth and bones really resemble E. hydruntinus. In th e holocene of the plain of Qazvin, beside numerous remains of an average He mione, there are several first phalanges similar to those off. hemionus bin agadensis, and several teeth similar to those off. hydruntinus. We decided to consider them as representative of separate taxa. Ii; however, they are just variations of E. hemionus, our insight of E. hydruntinus has to be mod ified in one of two ways: either E. hydruntinus is a Hemione (not an Ass, n or a kind of E. stenonis or Zebra), or the "specific" characters of E. hydr untinus result of a parallel evolution.